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To: lurqer who wrote (29363)	10/2/2003 8:54:22 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The Sunni triangle isn't providing enough "fun". Let's expand the insurgency. While we're at it, let's expand the budget deficit. Turkey and the United States have agreed an action plan to banish the threat of Turkish Kurdish rebels based in camps in northern Iraq, a Turkish official said on Thursday after talks with U.S. officials. Turkey has called on Washington to take concrete action to deal with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, also known as Kadek, as it considers asking parliament to send troops to Iraq to help keep the peace there. "We have agreed on an action plan with the United States to eradicate PKK/Kadek from northern Iraq," Turkish foreign ministry official Nabi Sensoy told an Ankara news conference after the talks. Turkey stations thousands of troops just inside northern Iraq in a controversial deployment designed to stop hundreds of PKK militants from launching attacks on Turkish soil. The presence of the Turkish troops has been a source of friction with Washington. U.S. troops briefly detained 11 Turkish commandos in northern Iraq in July on suspicion they were involved in a plot to kill a senior Iraqi Kurdish official. The United States has made it clear to Turkey that it is committed to dealing with the PKK, U.S. state department official Cofer Black told the same news conference. "We are very clear about this: PKK/Kadek is designated by the United States as a terrorist organization. There is no place in Iraq for PKK/Kadek," he said. A U.S. official said earlier on Thursday that Ankara had pledged to refrain from unilateral military action in northern Iraq in return for $8.5 billion in loans for its frail economy. from asia.reuters.com JMO lurqer